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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
03/01/2004 through 03/31/2004
Summary:

Total requests:    21,388
            
Book loan requests:    16,919
Book loan requests pulled:    12,255
Book loan requests not filled:    4,664
Percentage of book requests pulled:    72%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    29 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    4,469
Article loan requests filled:    2,653
Article loan requests not filled:    1,816
Percentage of article requests filled:    59%
Average hours taken to send an article:    42 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    4,033    33%
12 - 24 hours    3,679    30%
24 - 48 hours    2,309    19%
more than 48 hours    2,232    18%
Note: "Hours taken to pull a book" is the time elapsed between placing the original request on Voyager and when the item was charged to the "in transit" patron at the lending library, indicating that the item has been pulled from the shelf and processed for pickup by the WRLC courier.


By Hours Taken to Send an Article for Loan:

Hours Taken to Send     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    167    6%
12 - 24 hours    950    36%
24 - 48 hours    831    31%
more than 48 hours    704    27%
Note: "Hours taken to send an article" is the time elapsed between placing the original request on Voyager and when the request is marked as "filled" in the CLS system, indicating that the article has been scanned and transmitted to the borrowing library.

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